Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A partial story between two main stories of a building.
- noun The lowest balcony in a theater or the first few rows of that balcony.
- adjective Of or relating to securities granting a claim on interest or assets that is subordinate to that of secured and senior debt but above that of equity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture A story of diminished height introduced between two higher stories; an entresol. See cut under
entresol - noun A window less in height than in breadth; a window in an entresol.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
entresol . - noun A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
- noun A flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
- noun (Theat.) A floor under the stage, from which various contrivances, as traps, are worked.
- noun The lowest balcony in a theater, or the forward part of the first balcony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
balcony in anauditorium . - noun A sub-
floor , in between main floors of a building. - adjective engineering Fulfilling an
intermediate or secondary function.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun first or lowest balcony
- noun intermediate floor just above the ground floor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now we weren't really a venture capital company so much as we were at that time called mezzanine financing.
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The remaining $500 million coming due Tuesday is held by three so-called mezzanine lenders — Five Mile, MetLife Inc. and Government of Singapore Investment Corp., according to people familiar with the situation.
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Holders of the chain's $3.3 billion in so-called mezzanine, or junior, debt aren't likely to see any recovery.
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The winning bidder was a partnership between Normandy Real Estate Partners and Five Mile Capital Partners, which holds the senior portion of $700 million in so-called mezzanine debt, or the part that fills the gap between the first mortgage and a borrower's equity.
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Harry Macklowe Fillmore holds as much as $400 million in so-called mezzanine financing on the properties.
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The price hikes would help generate enough cash to pay off — or refinance — the second mortgage, known as a mezzanine loan, when it came due in January 2009.
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In fact, the guards were telling us to head up to the third-mezzanine, that is until a Wheel producer saw how EXTREMELY camera-ready our faces were and instructed us to head on into the orchestra, where we were seated in a couple of seats in the 32nd row that were intended for the deaf.
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Two investors that bought about $214 million of the so-called mezzanine debt filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that lenders that provided $7.4 billion in financing to the buyer, Lightstone Group LLC, are engaged in a "scheme" to take over the property and wipe out the mezzanine investors.
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Fortress used a strategy that is becoming increasingly popular among vulture investors: The private-equity firm first bought at a discount the $70 million controlling senior slice of the so-called mezzanine debt, which fills the gap between equity and the first mortgage.
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The development also owes $360 million on a so-called mezzanine loan that was originated by Fortress Investment Group LLC.
johnmperry commented on the word mezzanine
cf entresol
July 22, 2008